Page:Transactions of the Geological Society, 1st series, vol. 4.djvu/71

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Section of the Strata from Brandon Wells to Westgate in Weardale.

Fs. Ft. In. Fs. Ft. In.
Great Limestone (E) 11 Brought up 44 1
Tuft or water sill 1 3 Three yard Limestone (G) 2 2 4
Plate 2 Plate 3
High quarry hazle 1 3 Hazle 6 3 2
Plate 3 Plate 3
Low quarry hazle 2 Limestone (H) 3 3 5
Plate 9 Plate 2
Four fathoms Limestone (F) 4 Hugh slaty hazle 1 5
Plate 3 Plate 1
Hazle 6 1 3 Low grey beds Slaty hazle 1 3
Plate 5 4 10
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Carried up 44 1 Fathoms 62 1


Section of the Lead-mine Strata on Aldstone Moor, Cumberland.


Fs. Y. Ft. In. Fs. Y. Ft. In.
Grindstone sill 4 Brought up 67 1
Plate 6 Plate 3
Hazle 1 Little Limestone (D) 1 1 1
Plate 2 Little hazle 1 2
Limestone (1) Crow Coal occasionally 1 Plate Coal occasionally 2
Hazle or upper Coal sill 1 Hugh Coal sill (Hard grey sandstone with specks of mica) 1 1 1
Plate 8 Plate Coal occasionally 1
Hazle 1 1 1 Low Coal sill 2
Plate 2 1 Plate 3 2
Hazle 2 2 Tumblers and Great Limestone (E) 10 1 1
Plate 1 Tuft or Water sill 1 2
Upper Slate sill 4 Plate 2 1
Plate 1 1 Limestone post 1 1
Lower Slate sill 4 Quarry hazle 4
Plate 5 2 Plate 5
Whetstone sill (Fine grained Micaceous sandstone) 1 1 Indurated bluish clay with laminæ of hard stone and Iron pyrites 5
Plate (Ferruginous sandstone) 2 Great girdles bed 1
Iron stone with Coal 1 1 Four fathoms Limestone (F) 4
Freestone with Iron pyrites 5 1 Nattras gill quarry hazle. Coarse grained sandstone 3
Plate 6 1 Plate 6
Girdles beds 1 2
Plate 3 1
Pattison's sill or hazle (C) Very hard grey sandstone with specks of mica 1 1
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Carried up 67 1 Carried up 121 1